Messages in this thread | | | From | teamwork@freemail ... | Subject | Plan-9 is definitely _NOT_ a failure (Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd)) | Date | Wed, 05 May 1999 06:18:34 GMT |
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John Fulmer <jfulmer@appin.org> sez :
"Of note: Ken Thomson has a marginal failure of his own in the closet: Plan 9. This may have influenced SOME of his thinking...."
Whatever you want to think of Mr. Thompson, the man has more programming mileage than most people here, and Plan-9 is definitely _NOT_ a failure.
Far from it !!
There are lots of elegances and robustness in Plan9 that are not (yet!) available in Linux. Methinks Linux and the Linux Communities as a whole can benefit more by paying more attentions to Linux codebase (by making it even more robust and elegant) than flaming Ken Thompson and/or pooh-pooh(ing) elegant works such as Plan-9.
Sincerely, Pete teamwork@freemail.c3.hu
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